Animation Persistence Across Frames

[MoeChicken]

Hi! I'm a new user to Clickteam Fusion 2.5 and I'm hoping this will be an easier issue than I think it is, but...

I'm working on a simple overhead shooter-style game. The player controls a helicopter and attempts to navigate terrain littered with turrets. When the player enters an invisible active object called "targeting area" the turret object launches shot objects in the direction of the player. So far, so good.

The problem is, to make it so that the player can see more of the area at any time (the screen is normally too zoomed in to see all of it) I implemented a frame switch to a map screen. I set up a global value that retains the location of the player, so when they switch back, the player is where it should be. That all works fine. The problem is that the shots are not! Even if I tried to make an array to store every shot on the screen, I feel like on reload it would be static.

Bottom Line Question:

Is there a (preferably simple) way to "pause" a running frame, switch to another frame, and "unpause" the original frame so that all the animations, velocity, etc. remains intact?

Again, I'm pretty new to all of this, so I'd appreciate any help, even if it's a tough issue. I'll also be happy to provide any parts of my code if anything needs to be clarified! And of course, if this has already been answered somewhere else, let me know and I'll shut up. I couldn't find any answers on the forums that matched this issue of restoring animation after switching frames, but maybe I just missed it. Thanks!

[mobichan]

The simpler way might be to not switch frames, but have your map on an invisible layer in the same frame as the game. Then, have all your game code in a group which you can activate/deactivate to "pause" the game. When you deactivate the game group, then make the map layer visible. If you are moving the objects in code, you simply make sure the movement code is inside the game code group. If you are using built-in movements, then you simply call a "Stop" action when you pause and a "Start" action when you unpause.

If you absolutely must have everything in a separate frame, you are going to need to store all the relevant data in an Array as you mentioned.

[MoeChicken]

Gotcha. Thanks very much for the information!